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“The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.”

Sides Modern Enormous Combination Usual Both Sides Tactics Casualties Outdated Ordnance

Author:Iain Banks

“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”

“I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents' house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.”

Knows Want Children Wanted Past Used House Maps Stations Grandparent Surveys Headquarters Southampton Ordnance Grandparents House

Author:Jonathan Meades

“My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.”

Courses Father Paid Property Nine Holes Quarters Labs Naval Ordnance

Author:Lewis Black

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”

Persons Order Moral Shots Chiefs Narrative Motive Plot Attempting Huckleberry Ordnance

Author:Mark Twain

“He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.”

Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal

“Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

Running Seventies Maxims Technicians Mercenary Ordnance

Author:Howard Tayler

“I'm an F-18, bro, and I will destroy you in the air and deploy my ordnance to the ground.”

Air Bros Ordnance

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad - old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble,' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to ME when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings - every bit of it.”